Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:51:38 +0100 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: yal@yal.hopto.org Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 3945ABG Message-ID: <461231BA.8030805@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3674.192.167.105.85.1175593576.squirrel@yal.hopto.org> References: <3674.192.167.105.85.1175593576.squirrel@yal.hopto.org>
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yal wrote: > Hi, > > may be Florent Thoumie could help us better understand what's going on. > And for how long native support for intel 3945abg wifi cards will be > unavailable on FreeBSD 7. > Bergamini's wpi module won't be loaded by the new -CURRENT kernels. > I have the feeling Florent has his work cut out with other projects such as modular X and other ports related work, (although I see he did some work on the perforce wpi driver.) I think the project he was working on was getting the firmwares relicensed rather than developing the wpi driver directly. Of course i'd be happy to be proved wrong. Vince > -- -- > San Jose, CA March 7, 2007 -- The inclusion of firmware for popular Intel > wireless devices means that users of FreeBSD will have native wireless > support for many Centrino-branded Intel PRO/Wireless devices without > downloading additional software. This approval includes firmware for the > Intel 2100, 2200BG, 2225BG, 2915ABG, and the 3945ABG devices. > > "These changes have already been committed to the development branch of > the FreeBSD source code repository except for firmware for the 3945ABG, > which is expected to happen fairly soon once that driver is ready for > inclusion," said Florent Thoumie, a FreeBSD developer working on this > project. > > In order to use the firmware provided by Intel, FreeBSD users must first > agree with the license. FreeBSD developers have added a simple mechanism > to the operating system to agree to the license by defining an easy-to-use > system variable. > > -- -- > > On Tue, April 3, 2007 10:22, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> Thank you for your Feedback >> >> I never Tried it in -current I ran 6.2 Stable, Benjamin Close is >> working on a Driver however he hasn't updated his site in over a
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